Bodacious Buggerilla theater group collection

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Bodacious Buggerilla theater group collection

1971

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99155258514003941/catalog

Collection is comprised of three scripts ("Uncle Tom", "Telephone", and "Killer Joe"), a letter from a writer identified by signature as "J." to "Nancy", and a transcript of a talk between the author, again identified as J., and Ed Bereal. All are reproductions.

1 folder

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11659495

Houghton Library

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Bodacious Buggerilla

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The Black street theater group Bodacious Buggerrilla was founded in Los Angeles (Calif.) by Ed Bereal (1937- ), an American painter and assemblage artist, as a reaction to the 1965 Watts riot (also called the Watts rebellion). He and former art students at the University of California at Riverside performed skits in bars, laundromats, and other street settings with a focus on social and political critique and often depicting racial stereotypes. According to Bereal, the group, having drawn the at...